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receive the crack in front of the hoof, is perhaps the best. 
Binding the hoof up with circles of wax-end, as in the case of 
quarter sandcrack, with some plaster or dressing underneath it, 
will also now become advisable. It will restrict the spreading 
inclination of the hoof, as well as keep dirt and wet out of the 
crack. Repetition of this, and the continuance of the bar-shoe, 
will be required so long as there appears any risk of an exten- 
sion or renewal of the crack. 
THE SCROFULOUS DIATHESIS IN A BULLOCK. 
By John Barker, V.S., Stokesley. 
DURING a late visit to the hunting establishment of Robert 
Hildyard, Esq., Manor House, Stokesley, accident led me to 
that part where animals are slaughtered for the use of his pack 
of hounds. While there, a bullock about sixteen months old 
was brought in, the property of one of the most eminent short- 
horn breeders in the North Riding of Yorkshire. A few days 
previous to this, my father had been requested to attend this 
beast, but upon doing so, gave it as his opinion that the case 
was one beyond the power of medicine, and recommended the 
animal to be destroyed. When brought into the slaughter- 
yard, it was very thin in condition, and was in such a debili- 
tated state, that it had not been able to travel half a mile with- 
out lying down. This animal had been one of the most thriving 
in the stock, and was looked upon with no little interest by its 
owner ; but when about twelve months old, it ceased to grow 
so well as it ought to have done. Castration was then per- 
formed, and the animal sent to a farm some miles distant, in 
hopes that a change of pasture might be beneficial. 
At first sight there was nothing peculiar in the appearance 
of the bullock, with the exception of the attenuated condition 
already named. But, on attentive examination, there was a pecu- 
liar listlessness and languor which well betokened the existence 
of disease in some internal organ, the exact nature of which, 
however, I was not prepared to determine. 
I shall now describe, as briefly as possible, the appearances 
of the different organs as they came under my observation. 
The first examined was the liver, which was in a peculiar con- 
dition, from the presence of tuberculous matter, of a yellow 
colour and dense texture, deposited in isolated roundish masses, 
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